About CASE: In August 2021, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) partnered with Children’s Hospital Colorado to start the Colorado Antimicrobial Stewardship Endeavor (CASE). CASE includes physicians, pharmacists, and epidemiologists who provide mentorship and resources to Colorado hospitals that may be new to antibiotic stewardship. Antibiotic stewardship is the effort to measure and improve how antibiotics are prescribed by clinicians and used by patients. Improving antibiotic prescribing and use is critical to effectively treat infections, protect patients from harms caused by unnecessary antibiotic use, and combat antibiotic resistance. Learn more on the antimicrobial stewardship main page.
Through a series of workshops and one-on-one consultations, CASE will support hospital antibiotic stewardship programs to:
- Create evidence-based actions to improve antibiotic stewardship.
- Develop procedures to track and monitor antibiotic use and reporting.
- Extend antibiotic stewardship activities to pediatric patients.
- Develop programs that meet state and national standards and CDC’s Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship.
- Interact with antimicrobial steward peers statewide.
- Request one-on-one consultations from the CASE team.
CASE also seeks to provide resources such as treatment guidelines, support for reporting antibiotic use to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), and links to evidence-based guidelines and tools.
CASE workshops and office hours schedule
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Workshop 1: Building Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in resource limited community settings: November 18 noon - 1 p.m. MST |
Office hour 1: December 5 noon - 1 p.m. MST |
| Workshop 2 Guideline development and adaptation: January 13th noon - 1 p.m MST | Office hour 2: January 23rd noon - 1pm MST |
Registration does not expire! Join us any time before the last session.
CASE workshop guest speakers
Jan. 13, 2023
| Speaker | Background |
| Leigh Anne Bakel, MD, MSc Associate Professor of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine Medical Director of Clinical Effectiveness and Director of the Clinical Pathways Program, Children’s Hospital Colorado |
Dr. Leigh Anne Bakel is a Pediatric Hospitalist at Children’s Hospital Colorado where she also serves as a Medical Director of Clinical Effectiveness, and the Director of the Clinical Pathways Program. Her masters in Clinical Epidemiology is backed by her extensive experience in research in clinical practice guidelines on an international level. She, with the help of the Clinical Effectiveness team, transformed the Clinical Pathways program using process improvement strategies. Her areas of academic interest are building a national collaborative of pediatric Clinical Pathway programs, improving implementation and dissemination of Clinical Pathways, and developing a Clinical Pathway Learning Health System to further improve outcomes for children. |
Nov. 18, 2022
| Alfredo J. Mena Lora, MD, FIDSA, FACP Assistant Professor University of Illinois Chicago, Saint Anthony Hospital Chicago |
Alfredo J. Mena Lora, MD FIDSA is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he serves as Program Director for the Infectious Diseases fellowship and Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency. He directs Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship at Saint Anthony Hospital. Dr. Mena Lora has an interest in antimicrobial use and resistance in the United States and abroad. |
| Jessica Zering, PharmD, BCPS Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist Washington State Department of Health |
Jessica Zering is a board-certified pharmacist with more than five years of experience working in antimicrobial stewardship at a critical access hospital. The stewardship program that she created at Astria Sunnyside Hospital is nationally recognized. It was featured on the CDC/HRSA webinar titled “Enhancing Antibiotic Stewardship Programs in Critical Access Hospitals” in November 2021 and in the February 2022 edition of the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) publication. She is passionate about protecting patients and communities from the unwanted consequences of antimicrobial use. |
Fall 2021
| Speaker | Background |
| Sarah Parker, MD CHCO | Sarah Parker, MD is an Infectious Diseases attending pediatric physician and the Medical Director for Children's Hospital Colorado Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. |
| Christine MacBrayne, PharmD CHCO | Christine MacBrayne, PharmD, MSCS, BCIDP is an Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist Specialist at Children's Hospital Colorado. |
| Michael J. Bozzella, DO, MS CHCO | Michael Bozzella, DO is an Infectious Diseases attending pediatric physician and Antimicrobial Steward at Children’s Hospital Colorado. |
| Matt Miller, PharmD CHCO (previously UCHealth) |
Matt Miller, PharmD is an Infectious Disease and Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist at Children's Hospital Colorado. |
| Rana Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE Children’s National |
Rana Hamdy, MD is an Infectious Disease Specialist and Investigator and the Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Children's National Research Institute. |
| Marc Meyer, PharmD Southwest Health System |
Marc Meyer, PharmD is the Director Of Pharmacy Services and Infection Control and 340B Program at Southwest Health System. |
| Sarah Jung, PhD, D(ABMM) Microbiology at CHCO |
Sarah Jung, PhD is the Scientific Director of Clinical Microbiology at Children’s Hospital Colorado. |
| Jamey Atchison Microbiology at CHCO/Denver Health |
Jamey Atchison is a Medical Technologist with Children’s Hospital Colorado. |
| Kathleen Martinez, MSN, RN, CPN from IP/Epi at CHCO |
Kathleen Martinez, BSN, MSN, RN, CPN is a Nurse in the Infection Prevention/Epidemiology Section at Children’s Hospital Colorado. |
| Heather Johnson, PharmD from CHCO | Heather Johnson, PharmD is an Antimicrobial Stewardship team-member at Children’s Hospital Colorado. |
Past workshops and presentations
| Spring 2022 | Presentation slides |
| Jan. 21, 2022 | Stewardship Part 1: Why, who, how to keep track, and who to ask |
| Feb. 25, 2022 | Stewardship Part 2: Pharmacy Power |
| April 22, 2022 | Stewardship Part 3: It starts with a handshake |
| June 24, 2022 | Stewardship Part 4: The Larger Team |
| Fall 2022 | Presentation slides |
| Nov. 18, 2022 | Stewardship in the community and critical access settings | Presentation video |
CASE one-on-one consultations
People from our two teams work together to troubleshoot difficulties and help develop plans for improving your stewardship program over a 30-60 minute session. These sessions are tailored to your specific needs and situations.
To schedule a session, email Michael J Bozzella DO MS (CASE Lead) at michael.bozzella@childrenscolorado.org or Lynda Saignaphone (CDPHE Contact) at lynda.saignaphone@state.co.us.